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HENRY M. SWEET, OF WINOHESTEE, CONNECTICUT.

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SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 256,513, dated April 18, 1882.

Application filed February 4, 18er. (No model.)

.To all whom it may concern? Be it known that I, HENRY M. SWEET, lof Winchester, in the county of Litchfield, in the State of Connecticut, have invented a new and usef'ul Improvement in Clothes Horses, ot' which the following specification, with its drawings, is a full, clear, and exact description.

The object of this invention is to enable a clothesline to be quickly put up for use, readily made taut, quickly housed after use, and its tie-posts well braced when the lines are stretched.

In the drawings, Figure I represents the line stretched for use; Fig. 2, the clothes-line house in section, and Fig. 3 the coiled-spring device for winding up the lines.

The invention consists in arranging one or more independent clothes-lines in a house, each line upon a coiled-spring reel, and all the reels upon the same perpendicular standard.

The several parts are designated as follows: A is the standard; B, the house for sheltering the clothes-lines; G,thetieposts; D,the clotheslilies; E, the reels Wound up by a coiled spring;v a, the nut to secure the roof otl the house to the standard; l), the pin to hold each reel in place on the standard; o, the slot in tie-post to receive a clothes-line; d, the knot at end of aline to keep it from being pulled through the slot.

The house is constructed in any ornamental manner and firmly set on its standard. The upper part of the standard is roundthat portion of it within the house-and at convenient distances the standard holds one or more revolving reels, one above the other, and each` reel independent of the other. Upon each reel is wound a clothes-line. A coiled spring when its line is extended for use. The detaching of a line from its tie-post then allows it to be quickly Wound up in the house by the than the diameter ot' thelinein width, and up-i on one side of the post, under the slot, is cut a triangular notch as a part ot the slot, so that when the clothes-line is stretched from the house to the post and tightened and vthe knot d on the end of the line brought down through the slot the knot will neatlytit into the triangular notch aud, aided by the weight of the line and its contents, securely hold it to the post. The act offastening'and unfastening the linethus becomes a momentary matter.

l am aware that a clothes-line house containing a coiled spring tor automatically winding the line upon its reel is not new; nor do I lay any claim to the manner of securing the clothes-line to the tie-posts; but

What I claim as new, and desire to secure A standard, A, and 'house B combined, the post extending through the house and formdependently by means of plus, b two or more coiledspring reels, E, substantially as described.

In Witness' whereof I hereunto subscribe my name, in presence of two attesting witnesses, this 17th day ot' January, 1881.

. HENRY M. SWEET.

lVitnesses: i

JOHN F. WYNNE, LYMAN W. C Asn.

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